The Never-ending Awesome Science + Tech Stuff Thread

[Shorty]

Let's make a giant compendium for all stuff awesome and sciencey.

NASA Wants To Establish A Floating Cloud City To Study Venus (http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-wants-establish-floating-cloud-city-study-venus)

This is freaking awesome. Love it.

[Hannibal_Khan]

Here's a viewer for an amazing 150,000 megapixel image of the Milky Way (http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html)

technology is amazing...

[Hannibal_Khan]

NASA's Curiosity Rover: 28 months on Mars video (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/science/space/curiosity-rover-28-months-on-mars.html?_r=1)

[Madame Adequate]

Here's a viewer for an amazing 150,000 megapixel image of the Milky Way (http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html)

technology is amazing...

Well butter my biscuits, I've never seen that before, that is baller.

In a similar vein, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field#mediaviewer/File:NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg) shot is totally mindblowing. Most of the specks of light in these shots are galaxies, ancient ones, from the dawn of the universe, when it was less than a billion years old.

The area the UDF photographed occupies a tiny, tiny proportion of the sky - about 11 square arcminutes. The whole of the sky is over 2,400,000 square arcminutes (or just over 41,000 sqaure degrees). The scope of the universe is so so so freaking cool!

[Mirage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q

This shit is amazing. I know that sort of tech isn't even all that new, but it is still really awesome and also life-changing for those who need it.

Also it's going to lead to Human Revolution which is definitely a good thing.

[Hannibal_Khan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q

This trout is amazing. I know that sort of tech isn't even all that new, but it is still really awesome and also life-changing for those who need it.

Also it's going to lead to Human Revolution which is definitely a good thing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGk-BlAMc14

this is so cool. Imagine what will be possible 50 yrs from now...

[Fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q

This trout is amazing. I know that sort of tech isn't even all that new, but it is still really awesome and also life-changing for those who need it.

Also it's going to lead to Human Revolution which is definitely a good thing.

What astounds me about this tech is just how quickly it is improving. It seems like it's at least once a month that I'm reading about some grand new breakthrough in prosthetics. It's weird, I remember when Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out I was thinking "This is really cool, but they set it a bit close to be believable. It'll never be there by 2027."

At this rate it might be 5 years earlier than that.

[Madame Adequate]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30549341

So this just happened!